The Wolf of Wall Street The Rich Life Essays - Film, Finance

The Wolf of Wall Street: The Rich Life What is the secret to becoming filthy rich in the stock market in the modern age? In just under forty years, Apple, a company which began trading publicly in 1980, has created more than $1 trillion in net wealth for investors.The previous chart-topper. Warren Buffett once said " The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." Warren, Buffett. WiseGeek defines net wealth as ' the total value of assets owned by an individual, company, or other type of organization, less any current liabilities. The goal of most businesses and households alike is to generate a positive net wealth, meaning that the total value of asset surpasses the total amount of debt that is currently owed."' The movie known as The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese, a drama/biography defines their American dream as not about becoming middle children and having your kids go to college, but is about becoming ridiculously rich. But the institutions that al low people to become ridiculously rich (wall street bank etc) are not open to people with the wrong background and without the correct connections and breeding. So in light of that contradiction, the only way for normals to achieve the American dream is to find something that is in a grey area of the law . I gave the movie a 5 star simply because it was motivational, inspirational and informative. I thought this movie would be boring at first because it has to do with the stock market and Wall Street which basically deal with numbers all day, long but after I watched the movie, my way of thinking completely changed. Haris 2 The Wolf of Wall Street includes talented and phenomenal actors and actresses. Leonardo DiCaprio, the main character, performed as Jordan Belfort, a american dreamer Which chases a desire of becoming world's most powerful and rich individual with his friends that he helped get rich. Margot Robbie performed as Naomi Lapaglia, a beautiful girl from Dutch which creates a personal bond with the main character and marry with him later on movie. Jonah Hill performed as Donnie Azoff, a middle class worker lives in the same building that Jordan Belfort does. Azoff finds himself confronting Jordan Belfort in shop which is the moment his life changes from a middle class worker to an independent higher class individual. Jon Bernthal performed as Brad, a drug dealer which becomes a close partner with Jordan Belfort after the main character decides to create of his own firm to become financially independent. The movie begins by describing Belfort's first day as a junior stockbroker on Wall S treet. Surrounded by power play ers who live to be rich, get richer or die trying. Jordan has the opportunity to watch and learn firsthand the rules of the game. Little did he know he was stepping into a world where drugs, alcohol, corruption and prostitution are daily occurrences. A few years later, Jordan, who has been dreaming of truly becoming a successful stockbroker in his own right, has left Wall Street and has decided to start his own firm: Stratton Oakmont (SO) in Long Island, New York. Not only is he making millions of dollars daily and illegally at SO, but his firm and wild stockbrokers are the pure definition of debauchery; parties and sexual acts performed with hookers in the office, illegal pills and cocaine - to name but a few - can be found in abundance. This is an outrageous story of a man who had it all, i.e., money, status, prestige, a wife and children, yet who could not help wanting more. A man whose inexcusable greed led him to rob millions of innocent Amer icans so as to enable him to Haris 3 continue in this life of abuse, excesses, perversions and self-destructing behavior. Until he got caught. Jordan Belfort is very successful in his effort at becoming rich. His way of thinking or his mindset were not surely not always effective but they eventually came to be very major in his path of success and they did pay off at the end. Jordan Belfort kept thriving for money even